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Pat Seals of Flyleaf Shares His Top Ten Horror Films
9 November 2009 10:24 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
As we've mentioned previously, November 10th is the release date of the band Flyleaf's new CD, entitled Memento Mori, and to help celebrate the occasion, their bass player, Pat Seals, has taken time out of his hectic schedule to prepare for Dread Central readers a list of his Top Ten favorite horror films.
Nothing relieves the stress of the holidays -- or anything really -- like a good horror flick, and Pat certainly has prepared an eclectic catalog that shows he knows his shit about our genre.
Without further ado, here's Pat's list (click each image to see the full poster):
1. The Addiction (1995) - Dir. Abel Ferrara, Starring Lili Taylor
This is my favorite vampire movie. It is the best. The best. Morality and the darkness of human nature are the focus, and Lili Taylor's performance is brutal. Plus, Christopher Walken waltzes in for a philosophical cameo. The »
- The Woman In Black
Herzog and Lynch’s My Son snags theatrical release
6 November 2009 7:35 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Absurda and Industrial Entertainment have announced that their film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has set a debut theatrical-release date. The movie marks the first collaboration between cinematic mavericks Werner Herzog and David Lynch, who directed and executive-produced respectively.
My Son, My Son will open Friday, December 11 at New York City’s IFC Center (323 6th Avenue), with playdates in other cities to follow. Though word from early screenings is that it’s not really a horror film, it does deal with rather twisted subject matter—a man (Bug’s Michael Shannon) who murders his mother with a sword while acting out a Sophocles play—and features a genre-centric cast including Antichrist’s Willem Dafoe, Sisters’ Chloe Sevigny, Udo Kier (who discussed the movie with us here) and Brad Dourif. You can see the movie’s official website, with a trailer and more photos, here.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done' Gets NY Theatrical Date, Official Poster!
5 November 2009 4:44 PM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Update: Official one sheet below! Absurda and Industrial Entertainment are pleased to announce a theatrical release date for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (trailer below), executive produced by film icon David Lynch. My Son was directed by renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans) who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars Michael Shannon (Oscar® nominee for Revolutionary Road), Willem Dafoe (Antichrist), Chloë Sevigny (HBOs Big Love), Udo Kier and Michael Peña among others. The film will debut at the IFC Center in New York on December 11, 2009 with other cities to follow. My Son tells the story of a mad man that walks his mother through with a sword while acting out an ancient Sophocles play. It was inspired by a true story. Also check out the newly launched official website. »
"Fall Down Dead" Release News
18 October 2009 1:17 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
Highland Myst Entertainment and New Film International are proud to announce the limited theatrical release of "Fall Down Dead". Directed by Jon Keeyes and starring Dominique Swain, Udo Kier and David Carradine - in one of his final horror film roles - "Fall Down Dead" will open this December in select cities across the country. .As a holiday horror movie, we're excited it's coming out in December,. shared director Jon Keeyes. ."Fall Down Dead" will be a fun and scary alternative to the other holiday movies.. Set on Christmas Eve, "Fall Down Dead" follows single mother Christie Wallace (Dominique Swain) as she stumbles upon The Picasso Killer (Udo Kier), a serial killer who considers his mutilated victims to be works of art. Now the only person who can identify him, Christie... »
The 26th Olympia Film Festival
16 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
The curtains part yet again as Olympia Film Festival host several concert-worthy guests including Dame Darcy and Death By Doll and a very special visit from Steven Severin of the famed Siouxsie and the Banshees in his Only Northwest performance with his original score for the classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. With generous support, in the form of a $5,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, we have been able to increase our capacity to create stronger relationships between filmmakers and the Olympia community, bringing many exciting guests.
Several Northwest premieres are spotlit on the Capitol’s mighty big screen, including the adorable story of Etienne!, as a man takes his terminally ill pet hamster on a bicycle trip up the California coast; the British crime comedy Down Terrace featuring cast members from the original The Office; and the ‘lost’ feature Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth »
Kier and Carradine’s Fall Down Dead coming to theaters
13 October 2009 2:19 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Indie filmmaker Jon Keeyes, whose credits include the well-received American Nightmare and Suburban Nightmare, sent along news that his latest chiller Fall Down Dead will receive limited theatrical release via his Highland Myst Entertainment and New Film International. The movie will open in December in select cities nationwide; Keeyes passed on some photos, which you can see below.
Fall Down Dead stars genre fave Udo Kier (first photo) as The Picasso Killer, a serial murderer who turns his victims into works of art, and Lolita’s Dominique Swain (second photo) is Christie, a young woman trapped (along with six others) in a building one night with the madman. The late Carradine (third photo) appears as Wade, a bumbling security guard, and R. Keith Harris and Mehmet Gunsur co-star as detectives.
“This movie has everything I love about horror films,” Keeyes tells Fango. “Quirky characters with great conflict, an original twist on the killer, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Fantastic Fest Review: Metropia
6 October 2009 11:13 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
There's not far to go in the dystopian future world. Things are gray, mostly made of cement and the government is definitely, absolutely watching you. These have been the trappings of most every story where mankind's ambition exceeds his grasp from "1984" to "V for Vendetta." And for some reason, it always happen in Britain. Makes you wonder, huh? The creative team behind Metropia hasn't toyed around too much with the formula, but they have moved things to Europe and delivered a detailed story in a shiny new package that's worth seeking out. With fuel resources all but diminished, Europe is connected by a massive underground transit that everyone rides to their sad little work lives every day. Roger (voiced by Vincent Gallo) is a cog in the machine who is manic, paranoid, a bit depressed and dealing with a voice in his head. His relationship with his girlfriend is failing because of his own mistrust, and »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Exclusive Interview with Composer Claudio Gizzi
6 October 2009 1:14 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
In Paul Morrissey’s eccentric and utterly unhinged 1974 Eurotrash classic Blood For Dracula (often erroneously credited as the brainchild NYC art guru Andy Warhol), the opening imagery of Dracula (played by iconic German weirdo Udo Kier) painting his face kabuki white has always haunted me. The sequence is the spine and soul of the picture, showing the good Count as a tired, lonely showman who has long been forgotten by time and by the audience he once terrified.
And as eerily gorgeous as that bit of credit crawling business is, it’s the delicate piano waltz playing in the background that truly sells it.
Like Morrissey’s 3D companion film Flesh For Frankenstein the music for Blood was composed by Italian musician Claudio Gizzi. It’s orchestral, elegant, full of melancholy mourning and sadness. And truthfully it’s that dichotomy between the excessive gore, sex and general insanity on screen with Gizzi’s sophisticated, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Fantastic Fest Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
3 October 2009 7:07 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Spoiler Alert: In order to review a movie as bad as this, I'll have to spoil a few things to show just how nonsensical the damned thing is. It takes a lot for me to want to walk out on a movie. I've never actually stood up and headed out the door, and beyond the need to keep my streak alive, I've seen some terribly bad films in my time which has built up mental callouses towards the stuff on the lower end of the spectrum. It never usually enters my mind, but about half way through The Human Centipede (First Sequence), I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to be in the theater anymore. You might assume that's because of the film's gross out concept, but it's actually because the film exhibits terrible writing, directing and execution for a full hour and a half runtime. Two girls (Ashley C. Williams »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Tiff ‘09: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
24 September 2009 7:42 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? Directed by Werner Herzog Respected iconoclastic auteurs Werner Herzog and David Lynch collaborate on this drama, with Herzog as director and Lynch as executive producer. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is inspired by the harrowing true story of Mark Yarovsky (Michael Shannon), a graduate student at Uscd who, after being cast as the lead role in a Sophocles production, went on to stab and kill his mother with an antique sabre in his neighbor's living room. William Dafoe stars as Detective Hank Havenhurst, who is called to the home where the murderer has barricaded himself in his house and taken two hostages. Across the street, Brad's mother lies dead, found sprawled in a pool of blood, and slowly a string of Brad's friends arrive on the scene, among them his girlfriend (Cloe Sevigny) and his theater-director pal (Udo Kier). Slowly, »
- Ricky
Three Tiff ‘09 Films That Came Up Short - My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done?, The Good Heart, and Harry Brown
20 September 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
As a movie fan, there are times that I wish I could say “once more, with feeling,” and watch films with interesting premises and paths suddenly replay with the feeling and intrigue that they’re sorely lacking - the missing ingredient that could make them thrive. It’s easy to disregard a film with a faulty premise and delivery, but it’s not so easy to stomach the films with promise not met, like “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?,” “The Good Heart,” and “Harry Brown.”
Hit the jump for more on these three Tiff films.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
We’re used to murder mysteries playing out from beginning to end - the death, the uncovering of clues, and the revelation of the murderer. When Werner Herzog and David Lynch tackle the theme, however, nothing is normal. In “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, »
- Monika Bartyzel
Tiff ‘09: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
20 September 2009 12:28 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? Directed by Werner Herzog Respected iconoclastic auteurs Werner Herzog and David Lynch collaborate via this drama, with Herzog as director and Lynch as executive producer. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is inspired by the harrowing true story of a man Mark Yarovsky (Michael Shannon), a graduate student at Uscd who after being cast as the lead role of a production of Electra, went on to stab and kill his mother with an antique saber in his neighbor's living room. William Dafoe stars as Detective Hank Havenhurst who is called to the home where the murderer has barricaded himself in his house and taken two hostages. Across the street, Brad's mother lies dead, found sprawled in a pool of blood, and slowly a string of Brad's friends arrive on the scene, among them his girlfriend (Cloe Sevigny) and his theatre »
- Ricky
DVD news #1: New Silent Scream/Sorority discs and more
15 September 2009 3:16 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
A couple more cult-fave slasher flicks of the early ’80s receive the special-edition treatment via DVDs that arrive November 24. Fango got the details on a new disc of Mark Rosman’s 1983 The House On Sorority Row (the basis of the current big-screen remake Sorority Row) from Liberation Entertainment, and the DVDebut of 1980’s Silent Scream from the new Scorpion Releasing.
House On Sorority Row, previously issued on a bare-bones disc by Elite, has been given a fresh transfer from a recently discovered print for this 25th Anniversary Edition (even though the film is technically 26 years old). The film is now supplemented with:
Audio commentary by writer/director Rosman Alternate ending Photo gallery Trailer
Retail price is $19.95. Silent Scream, directed by Denny Harris from a script by Jim and Ken Wheat (who also produced) and Wallace C. Bennett, is set at a boarding house where a group of college students take up residence, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Toronto 2009: "Soul Kitchen"'s Chaotic Warmth
15 September 2009 7:54 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
German helmer Fatih Akin's latest, "Soul Kitchen," is a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of "Head On" and "The Edge of Heaven" doing schtick for the first time -- not as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human touch and sense of interconnection. In fact, Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) wishes he were a little less connected at the start of "Soul Kitchen" -- his brother Illyas (Moritz Bleibtreu) is out on conditional probation and needs a job at his restaurant, a high school acquaintance is going after the land that restaurant sits on, the Hamburg Tax Office is looking to collect back taxes and the one person he wishes were around, his girlfriend, is headed to Shanghai for six months for work. He also has chronic back pains, which don't do him any »
- Stephen Saito
Little Scene: The Films of Alejandro Jordorowsky
10 September 2009 9:36 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Alejandro Jordorowsky certainly is a strange and amazing fellow. It's extremely sad though that only a small amount of people have had the chance to find out just how strange and amazing the artist's works actually are. He has heavily influenced everyone from The Beatles to David Lynch to Sam Fuller and Bob Dylan. Despite his popularity, it has been his own film's content which has in many cases helped put his own head in the stocks and his films on the shelf. Their confronting, bizarre, often overtly religious, and always graphic imagery puts viewers through the ringer and his disregard for convention is almost seizure inducing. In the man's own words; "I ask of film what most people ask of psychedelic drugs" and anyone who has seen any of his amazingly surreal work will know for sure that he doesn't lie. But it isn't all just weird for werid's sake. »
- Neil Innes
Suspiria Remake Moving Forward
9 September 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
In a Variety article about “I Am Love”, the new Tilda Swinton, film director Luca Guadagnino mentions that First Sun, his production company, is actually moving forward on a remake of the classic 1977 horror film “Suspriria” by director Dario Argento. Shooting is scheduled to start in 2010, with David Gordon Green directing. Though not confirmed, Natalie Portman is rumored to play the lead role in the film, which is about a new student to a ballet school in Europe. She then discovers that horrific going-ons are happening all around her. Jessica Harper initially starred in the original film, which also starred Udo Kier and Joan [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
Tiff 2009 Must See List: Werner Herzog Double Header
4 September 2009 6:40 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
#5: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans #6: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Werner Herzog films aren't exactly hard to come by - he regularly releases several in a given year - but his two features at this year's Tiff are notable for both being non-documentary works, which have been relatively scarce in Herzog's recent years. (His last was 2004's excellent Rescue Dawn. Before that, it was 2001's much-derided Invincible.) Even stranger is that one of them is a quasi-remake of Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, a film that Herzog claims never to have seen (and whose director he claims never to have heard of). Its star is Nicolas Cage, whose recent stretch of stinkers is almost unparalleled considering some of the great work he's done in the past. The trailer, below, is frankly insane, and Variety's review [1] suggests it's in step with the film: "The film is offbeat, »
- Ricky
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? dir. Werner Herzog (trailer) (Mixed Media)
4 September 2009 4:30 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
Since 1987's Cobra Verde, Werner Herzog has directed just two feature films in the ensuing twenty two years -- Invincible (2001) and Rescue Dawn (2007), preferring to focus increasingly upon documentaries. It appears he made the right choice as these features were met with general indifference both critically and at the box-office, while his documentaries have garnered multiple awards and almost universal praise. However, with My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Herzog's interest in the fiction format appears to have been reignited, with two features completed (the other being his Bad Lieutenant reimagining) and yet another soon to begin filming. Now, for those of you who upon seeing the title card David Lynch Presents a Werner Herzog Film didn't immediately turn off the trailer and start pulling out your wallets- let me enlighten you as to why this quite possibly could be the most awesome-est thing ever! Ok, well maybe of the year. »
- By Brian Parks
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Yellow Submarine and Twilight Dildo
22 August 2009 3:11 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The teaser trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar rightly stole everyone else’s thunder yesterday, after much hype and anticipation; but Avatar was not the only film to dish out a trailer today attached to Inglourious Basterds. It’s certainly not the only big news in film this week. In this new feature, let’s take a look at the good, the bad, and the Wtf.
The Good
• Bruce Willis talked to MTV about climbing aboard Sylvester Stallone's manly epic The Expendables, joining the likes of Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Steve Austin and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among other testicle draggers.
• We finally got a trailer for the David Lynch / Werner Herzog collaboration My Son My Son, What Have Ye Done. I still can't believe they're really going with that title, but it's great. The trailer looks... pretty much like Werner Herzog directing a David Lynch movie. »
- Arya Ponto
Trailer: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
18 August 2009 11:16 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The trailer for Werner Herzog's latest film, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, hit online today, and it's looking pretty intense. The film, starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Michael Pena, Bill Cobbs, Grace Zabriskie, and Udo Kier will be playing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, but here's a taste of what to expect ...
Official Synopsis
"The film opens as officers arrive at the scene – a typical middle-class neighborhood in San Diego. The suspect has barricaded himself inside a home and appears to have taken hostages. Two friends he had urgently telephoned earlier that morning arrive, but too late. As they and their neighbors try to come to grips with what has happened, they tell their stories to the detective in charge of the crime scene. In a series of flashbacks, the bizarre story of Brad Macallam begins to emerge. After an »
- Uncle Creepy
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